ᐅ Lawn Renovation with Excessive Weed Growth. What Are the Next Steps?

Created on: 26 May 2020 15:26

Hello everyone!
Four weeks ago, we planted and reseeded our lawn.

Unfortunately, the ENTIRE lawn is heavily overrun with weeds.

The grass doesn’t stand a chance to grow properly.

Last Saturday, I sprayed Roundup weed killer on the lawn. The weeds are slowly dying and turning yellow.

The grass that managed to grow is still standing strong.

What should I do next?

How can I remove the dead weeds within 1-2 weeks?

Can I simply use a scarifier (lawn dethatcher) to treat the lawn?

I want to overseed afterward.

How would you proceed?

Tolentino16 Jun 2020 08:56

#13

Golfi90 schrieb:

He grows so fast because of the fertilizer, it’s getting pretty annoying soon!

Cool, which fertilizer?

guckuck216 Jun 2020 09:13

#14

Don’t celebrate too quickly. Long grass doesn’t necessarily mean a good lawn. The keyword here is "Blaukorn" (a type of synthetic fertilizer). It makes the grass grow rapidly, but tall and thin rather than dense. That is not sustainable.

Golfi9014 Jul 2020 20:41

#15

This is how it looks now. I think I need a fertilizer with a high nitrogen content...

Green garden with young trees, gravel strip and planting bed by the terrace, houses in the background.

Nordlys14 Jul 2020 22:08

#16

Get the universal lawn fertilizer from the agro shop at punkt d e. Apart from nitrogen, it also contains other important minerals, making it more sustainable than straight ammonium nitrate fertilizer. It works more gradually—not as sudden but lasts longer. Our lawn is very well nourished with it, and it has also helped develop good soil life with earthworms and so on. I also mow with a mulching mower, which always adds a bit of fertilizer too. K.

Golfi9014 Jul 2020 22:24

#17

I also ran the robot...

I applied the general-purpose fertilizer myself back then. However, it does not contain such a high nitrogen content.

DerGuteTon15 Jul 2020 10:06

#18

When I see the results here—how a weed-infested lawn can still thrive nicely with some effort using manual work, tools, and chemicals—I’m currently wondering: Is it really worth screening 50 m³ (about 65.5 cubic yards) of “weed-containing” topsoil excavation, or should I just actively manage any weeds if they start to grow? That seems to be the better approach at the moment...

ᐅ Lawn Renovation with Excessive Weed Growth. What Are the Next Steps?

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